Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter: Atlas

April 27, 1995 - February 25, 1996

Atlas is an ongoing, encyclopedic work composed of approximately 4,000 photographs, reproductions or cut-out details of photographs and illustrations, grouped together on approximately 600 separate panels. The images closely parallel, year by year, the subjects of Richter's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis central to his art.

Press Release

ROBERT LEHMAN LECTURES ON CONTEMPORARY ART: CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS ON ATLAS: GERHARD RICHTER'S WORLD

Sep 29, 1995

As part of the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art,
Christopher Phillips will lecture on the work of Gerhard Richter at Dia
Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street, New York City, on Thursday,
October 19, 1995. The lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. Admission is
$5.00.

This lecture is organized in conjunction with the exhibition
of Gerhard Richter's work Atlas, at Dia's main exhibition facility,
548 West 22nd Street, on view through March 1996. Atlas is an
ongoing, monumental, encyclopedic work composed of approximately
4,000 photographs, reproductions or details of photographs and
illustrations, grouped together on over 600 separate panels. Certain
images in this work closely parallel subjects in Richter's painting,
revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis central to his art.

Christopher Phillips is senior editor at Art in America. He is
co-author (with Maria Morris Hambourg) of The New Vision: Photographs
from the Ford Motor Company Collection (1989), and editor of the
companion anthology Photography in the Modern Era. His recent
publications include essays on Raoul Hausmann and Andy Warhol, and an essay
on Joseph Beuys in Dia's Joseph Beuys, Arena where would I have got if I had been
intelligent! (1994).

Funding for the lecture series has been provided by a generous grant
from the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc. Funding for "Gerhard Richter:
Atlas," has been provided by the Lannan Foundation, with
additional generous support from: Lufthansa German Airlines; Doris and Don
Fisher; Mimi and Peter Haas; Linda and Harry Macklowe; Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas
H. Lee; and the members of the Dia Art Council and Art Circle.